"Thanks
to the Revolution,social conditions are changed . . . The Revolutionary
sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of rights, developed, develops
the sentiment of duty. The law of all is liberty, which ends
where the liberty of others begins, according to Robespierre's
admirable definition. Since '89, the entire people has been expanding
in the sublimated individual; there is no poor man, who, having
his rights, has not his ray; the starving man feels within himself
the honour of France; the dignity of the citizen is an interior
armour; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. "

--Les
Miserables, Saint Denis, Book V

Liberty leading
the Peopleby Eguene
Delacroix was painted on 28 July 1830, to commemorate the July
Revolution that had just brought Louis-Philippe to the French
throne.

In Victor Hugo's novel, Les Miserables,
he places his story of love, honor, and struggle among the French
revolutions of 1830, 1832, and 1848. In doing so , Hugo brings
to life the revolutionary working class.

The working class, as Hugo makes
clear in his novel, played large roles in the revolutions of: